lawrencemmartin's Identifications

Fruiting abundantly in woodchips/debris beneath Douglas fir and Western red cedar.
Young cup interior with gelatinous “in-aspic” clear gel filled within bowl(young peridioles enclosed within gel). See top right specimens in shots 1-2.
Fragile “cap” on young specimens easily cracks and reveals gelatinous interior inside(not as persistent/thick as Crucibulum).
Peridioles: medium gray colored(smaller than Crucibulum and not as pale).
Exterior: cup margin with gray tomentum, darker brown and slightly scaly below margin. Not completely tomentose as we’d see with N. niveotomentosa(also that species has smaller dark brown peridioles).
Harvested 14 specimens still attached to substrates and dehydrated thoroughly for herbarium collection/genetic record.
My coinciding Mushroomobserver observation below-

https://mushroomobserver.org/540245?q=1pURI

Large fruiting beneath Sitka Spruce and Western hemlock. A few specimens fruiting directly on heavily rotted/myceliated wood.
Cap: rubbery, gelatinous quality with suede like/kid leather texture. Staining heavily where handled.
Odor: pungently fishy, burnt rubber/pencil eraser.
Harvested a single young specimen. Sliced off 1/3 of cap and dehydrated sample/bagged for herbarium collection/genetic record.
My corresponding Mushroomobserver observation linked below-

https://mushroomobserver.org/559681?q=1oaSB

Single small fruiting in mossy soil beneath Sitka Spruce and Western hemlock.
Gills: broad/widely spaced, deeply decurrent. Gills stained blackish gray(due to blackish spore drop).
Cap/stem: coated in cottony flocculent shags.
Harvested specimen and dehydrated thoroughly for my herbarium collection/genetic record.
My corresponding Mushroomobserver observation below-

https://mushroomobserver.org/559676?q=1v09h

Two very robust young fruiting bodies(large for this species) in soil beneath Western Hemlock and Sitka Spruce.
Harvested both specimens.
Sliced specimens in half to show context in work up at home. Dehydrated the larger bisected specimen and bagged for my herbarium collection/genetic record.
My corresponding Mushroomobserver observation linked below-

https://mushroomobserver.org/559693?q=1v09h

Multiple young fruiting bodies in soil beneath Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock.
Harvested multiple specimens for culinary use.
I sliced off portions of two caps and dehydrated/bagged for my fungal herbarium collection/genetic record.
My corresponding Mushroomobserver observation linked below-

https://mushroomobserver.org/559695?q=1oaSB

I labeled herbarium bag Russula “laurocerasi”: R. grata is synonym.

A very fragrant Russula beneath Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock.
Odor: pungent maraschino Cherry/almond odor. Cherry magic marker odor.
Stains heavily throughout where handled.
Sliced cap in half and harvested 1/2 cap.
Dehydrated harvested portion of cap and dehydrated thoroughly for my herbarium collection/genetic record.
My corresponding Mushroomobserver observation linked below-

https://mushroomobserver.org/559701?q=1v09h

Fruiting on a well myceliated conifer branch. Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock dominant canopy.
Freshest wood completely and delightfully stained deep blue from mycelium.
Cups: uniformly round, thick equal cup margins. Paler in center of cup/interior.
Stem: centrally attached with all fruiting bodies. Not connected on sides or irregularly like aeruginascens usually is.
Harvested entire piece of infected branch(I have a woodworking friend who I plan to gift the blue stained wood for him to create inlays).
Removed multiple specimens from wood upon arriving home and wrapped in a paper towel for dehydration overnight.
MICROSCOPY:
I removed a single cup and performed a crush mount on a glass slide in 3% KOH.
Spores: long, fusiform with a single oil droplet at each end/tips.
Paraphyses: mostly equal with a few having slightly swollen, clavate tips. Long.
Asci: 8 spored.
Dehydrated all specimens in folded paper towel in my herbarium bag/genetic record.
My corresponding Mushroomobserver observation linked below-

https://mushroomobserver.org/559707?q=1v09h